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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Meadow Ford on August 22, 2023, 01:37:06 PM
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Near 90 degrees here in the mid-west.
Just before noon today I was driving along Fischer Road. Just a stones throw south of the IL./WI. border.
A 92 year old HOF tr/dr/owner was on his rider mower trimming up the area around his barns and training track.
The same barns that for several years held over a hundred stallions, mares, babies and horses in training.
Any one want to guess what the big sign by the road reads?
There used to be a littler sign that read
" Little Lexington"
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Fox Valley Standsrdbreds
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Fox Valley Standsrdbreds
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For the first time in a coons life you are mistaken.
I will give the right answer Wednesday afternoon.
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Where is Fuguzzi?
I bet he can tell some stories about this 92 year old HOF guy that now just mowes the lawn.
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Del Insko the 92 year old?
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Doc Walker?
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Can only be Del Insko. Toothpick guy. Virtually no interaction with him personally. Excellent trainer, underrated driver. Big part of the 2 most notable race fixing scandals of the 70s.
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come to think of it given that in the old days purses were low and gambling was high on a relative basis, race fixing was prominent and perhaps a necessity to survive for some
in todays world purses are high and gambling for the most part low so far fewer scandals
sure i suspect guys still stiff one or set one up but likely mostly in low class overnights
with all the sires stakes etc not much race fixing going to happen in those races , just too much purse money on the line
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Sign says you've got to have a membership card to get inside. Ugh.
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come to think of it given that in the old days purses were low and gambling was high on a relative basis, race fixing was prominent and perhaps a necessity to survive for some
in todays world purses are high and gambling for the most part low so far fewer scandals
sure i suspect guys still stiff one or set one up but likely mostly in low class overnights
with all the sires stakes etc not much race fixing going to happen in those races , just too much purse money on the line
Agreed and also, the driver fraternities at most of the major tracks changes so often now with some guys regularly racing at 3 or 4 tracks weekly. Back in the day most of us cou;ld name the entire drivers list from a to z and barely miss a name.
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What do this 92 year old HOFer and Bill O'Donnell have in common with two million?
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Both won the Woodrow Wilson. Land Grant for Insko and Nihilator for O'Donnell which I believe was the biggest purse ever for Harness
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Can only be Del Insko. Toothpick guy. Virtually no interaction with him personally. Excellent trainer, underrated driver. Big part of the 2 most notable race fixing scandals of the 70s.
Del Insko the 92 year old?
Yes,
It was Del Insko out mowing in near 90 degree weather. The big sign he was mowing around read.
Del Insko Stable
Much of the horse pasture has already been sold off for a sub division. I am guessing the sign, barns, and track will soon be replaced with more upscale houses.
One more horse stable to soon disappear.
Very sad!
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Both won the Woodrow Wilson. Land Grant for Insko and Nihilator for O'Donnell which I believe was the biggest purse ever for Harness
Yes,
Each winning a $2,000,000 race is what they have in common.
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One last Insko trivia quiz.
What stallion did Insko train and drive as an aged(Not at two or three) FFa pacer, that is now in the pedigree of most every(maybe every) USA bred pacer?
If Confederate and Caninibal go on to be successful sires, then this Insko trained DIRECT MALE LINE will exist for generations to come.
The horse's stall name plate still hangs in Insko's main barn.
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cole muffler
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One last Insko trivia quiz.
What stallion did Insko train and drive as an aged(Not at two or three) FFa pacer, that is now in the pedigree of most every(maybe every) USA bred pacer?
If Confederate and Caninibal go on to be successful sires, then this Insko trained DIRECT MALE LINE will exist for generations to come.
The horse's stall name plate still hangs in Insko's main barn.
I'm lost here. If you go back to the male line of Sweet Lou you get Yankee Cruiser, Artiscape, Artsplace, Abercrombie, Silent Majority, Henry T Adios, Adios. I don't think Insko was associated with any of these although I could be wrong. He did train Overcall and Rum Customer but they aren't foundation sires.
To me the one found in more pedigrees is No Nukes of which he is prominent in the female side of Sweet Lou but I don't think Insko had anything to do with him either so please enlighten us to this answer.
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Thorn you are on the right track.
Read again were I said he didn't train the horse as a two and three year old.
Insko took over as a four year old. Raced him in the big FFA races in CA.
Del did drive Abercrombie once in NY. when Gansey missed his flight from Lex.
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Henry T Adios
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Henry T Adios
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Cool, Way before my time but accurate. I think he was the leading money earner for pacers at one point
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Henry T Adios
Henry T Adios
Right you both are
Old Guy you are back to your winning ways.
Stanley Dancer trained as a two and three year old.
Thanks for playing along!